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the budget saw in the senate and died. -- sat in the senate and died. that is the reason i am running for the senate. the senate cannot get anything done. it is the fed's rule of law that we are supposed to have a budget every year. i do not think the debt ceiling increase and another 10%, the sequestration of defense, is not an excuse to do and what the law says. >> i agree with the congressmen that the proposal had some good ideas. we need to work off that framework. that was the framework the president and john boehner are working on when they got in the agreement last summer prior to his passing a budget into law. they were going to try to move $4 trillion of debts off the books. the tea party shut it down. we are working on a bipartisan basis in the senate every day to try to cobble together a plan that will reduce 4-$5 trillion of debt. i am part of that group. we need to reduce mortgage interest. i do not believe anybody buys a second, because of the mortgage interest deduction. we should look at whether we should take a haircut on charitable ded
the budget saw in the senate and died. -- sat in the senate and died. that is the reason i am running for the senate. the senate cannot get anything done. it is the fed's rule of law that we are supposed to have a budget every year. i do not think the debt ceiling increase and another 10%, the sequestration of defense, is not an excuse to do and what the law says. >> i agree with the congressmen that the proposal had some good ideas. we need to work off that framework. that was the...
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the 60% rule in the u.s. senate should be done away with. being able to put a culture board in, being able to put a mark in so somebody doesn't get approved, those are yesterday's procedures. all of those procedures in the united states senate should be modernized so that 52%, 51%, 50% of the people in the senate can make policy and move this country forward. >> representative baldwin? >> i certainly agree that congress has gotten too partisan and certainly has lost its civility. and i find that regrettable. i have always had great success in reaching across the party aisle and getting things done, both in my time in the state legislature and my time in the congress. some may not believe that tommy thompson once signed into law a tommy baldwin-scott walker bill. in congress, i've worked to advantage disability legislation for blinded veterans with congressman -- republican congressman, now senator john bozeman. i worked with sue myrick, a republican who passed the national breast and cervical cancer early detection program and with mary bono
the 60% rule in the u.s. senate should be done away with. being able to put a culture board in, being able to put a mark in so somebody doesn't get approved, those are yesterday's procedures. all of those procedures in the united states senate should be modernized so that 52%, 51%, 50% of the people in the senate can make policy and move this country forward. >> representative baldwin? >> i certainly agree that congress has gotten too partisan and certainly has lost its civility....
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talk to us about what went into the peaking of thomas eagleton, the senator from missouri, to be the running mate of george mcgovern in 1972. guest: thomas eagleton was one of his last six kurt president -- vice president of candidate. he wanted ted kennedy on the ticket. everything told him that ted kennedy, despite its being just a few years after, but given the best shot of being his best running mate. attaching nixon in the fall. as the political director said, the only question was about ted kennedy was how many fingers they were willing to lose to get him on the ticket. george mcgovern kept thinking that kennedy would say yes even though he hinted to him and told them that he would say no. finally it comes down to the final day of the convention. they are without a vice- presidential nominee george mcgovern goes through a series of choices before settling on thomas eagleton after others recommended him. others had declined the ticket. and it pointed to thomas eagleton as a good option -- and they pointed to thomas eagleton as a good option. moments before deadline, the governor
talk to us about what went into the peaking of thomas eagleton, the senator from missouri, to be the running mate of george mcgovern in 1972. guest: thomas eagleton was one of his last six kurt president -- vice president of candidate. he wanted ted kennedy on the ticket. everything told him that ted kennedy, despite its being just a few years after, but given the best shot of being his best running mate. attaching nixon in the fall. as the political director said, the only question was about...
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but he wasn't in the senate with senator feingold. and so, look, i'm going to -- what you need to know about me is i will uphold the law, i'm going to have an attorney general that enforces the law. the time for campaign funding reform is after the election. this man has outspent me and the special interests are outspending me. and i am not going to lay down my arms in the middle of the campaign for somebody who has got no credibility on the issue. >> senator mccain -- hold on one second. senator mccain said in august, "it doesn't matter which one of you is president of the united states in january, there is going to be blood on the floor of the united states senate," and he'll tie up the senate until campaign finance reform is passed that includes a ban on soft money. first of all, would you support that effort by him, or would you sign a bill that is finally passed that included -- >> i would support an effort to ban corporate soft money and labor union soft money so long as there was dues check-off. sinceampaigned on this the prima
but he wasn't in the senate with senator feingold. and so, look, i'm going to -- what you need to know about me is i will uphold the law, i'm going to have an attorney general that enforces the law. the time for campaign funding reform is after the election. this man has outspent me and the special interests are outspending me. and i am not going to lay down my arms in the middle of the campaign for somebody who has got no credibility on the issue. >> senator mccain -- hold on one second....
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by the way, i need josh mandel in the senate to make that happen. of course, rob portman will be there. those five things, number 1, get america energy independence. he is our oil, our coal, our gas, how our renewables. number 2, late trade work for us. we will open markets and we will -- make markets work for us. we will crackdown on cheaters. number 3, we will make sure our workers have the skills they need to succeed and our kids have the skills they need in the 21st century. a lot of schools are not doing the job they need to do. i want to make sure we put our key its first and the teachers first and the teachers' union behind -- our kids first and our teachers first and the teachers' union behind. number 4, you are not going to get entrepreneurs and businesses to invest in ohio and invest in other states in america and put their life savings to work here unless they know we are not headed to be placed greece or spain or italy or those places that have had such trauma overseas. to make sure that is not the case, we will finally do something repu
by the way, i need josh mandel in the senate to make that happen. of course, rob portman will be there. those five things, number 1, get america energy independence. he is our oil, our coal, our gas, how our renewables. number 2, late trade work for us. we will open markets and we will -- make markets work for us. we will crackdown on cheaters. number 3, we will make sure our workers have the skills they need to succeed and our kids have the skills they need in the 21st century. a lot of...
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then i think the people you like to congress, the people you talk to elect to the senate. make sure that they know that they are working for you. you are not pressing them, -- you're not paying them, frankly to go to washington, and not give anything done. hopefully we will be unified again after november. [applause] >> i kind of was hoping to hear more about your expertise in the middle east, and especially it seems like there have been a lot more conversations lately about what is going on in the middle east and i was like to hear your point about how that can next to our nation and what we're in right now. >> yes. >> yes, i think we are all watching very, very troubled by what has happened. it seems to be the first thing you can say is while we applaud president obama for killing osama bin laden -- ordering the operation to kill osama bin laden -- while the has been very worried -- very busy spiking football's about that, they seem to have missed the fact that al-qaeda is resurgent in north africa and in the gulf. and killing the bin laden, although we applauded and wel
then i think the people you like to congress, the people you talk to elect to the senate. make sure that they know that they are working for you. you are not pressing them, -- you're not paying them, frankly to go to washington, and not give anything done. hopefully we will be unified again after november. [applause] >> i kind of was hoping to hear more about your expertise in the middle east, and especially it seems like there have been a lot more conversations lately about what is going...
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>> obama had a super majority in the senate and had congress for the first two years he was there. >> no, he did not. four months. after spector switched and scott brown won he had 60. >> anyone who thinks he did not have the majority of this legislature and the bully pulpit is kidding themselves. he is not taken seriously in the deficit. he made a big spiel about stimulus now and cut the deficit later. some of us are still weighing in on that one. most people thought the budget he has submitted are now worth the income they were printed on. this is a message to the voters that he does not care very much about that issue. >> sasha, this one is for you. neither side references the supreme court. will more people be alienated if they bring this up in regards to social issues? the supreme court -- there have literally been abortion suits. they were concerned about the akin comment. how serious is abortion? who wins? >> i think the voters know very little about the supreme court. voters are persuadable, 12%-15%. lowe's a bit of research, information voters. frankly, they decide late becau
>> obama had a super majority in the senate and had congress for the first two years he was there. >> no, he did not. four months. after spector switched and scott brown won he had 60. >> anyone who thinks he did not have the majority of this legislature and the bully pulpit is kidding themselves. he is not taken seriously in the deficit. he made a big spiel about stimulus now and cut the deficit later. some of us are still weighing in on that one. most people thought the...
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pentagon and the assistant to the late senator daniel patrick moynihan. he is the author of a college textbook called "silent warfare: understanding the world of intelligence." it is a pleasure to call him to the microphone. >> thank you very much. i want to make a few comments on islam itself to give you a feel for the kind of discussion we have that report. it is a complicated phenomenon with a lot of strands and movements but i think the most important point is we are talking about a political ideology, that is to say it is a program for reshaping society as a whole, political life, the economy, everything. and its impact, therefore, it is in the political realm just as previous kinds of ideologies became important and had that kind of impact. this is crucial because obviously government officials are reluctant, reasonably so, to get involved in debates about religion. we take the first amendment seriously. that is that the government's job to get in those kinds of questions. in this case, i think we have to look at it as something with political effec
pentagon and the assistant to the late senator daniel patrick moynihan. he is the author of a college textbook called "silent warfare: understanding the world of intelligence." it is a pleasure to call him to the microphone. >> thank you very much. i want to make a few comments on islam itself to give you a feel for the kind of discussion we have that report. it is a complicated phenomenon with a lot of strands and movements but i think the most important point is we are talking...
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although the united states senate has not yet ratified the convention, 24 other countries of this hemisphere have signed it. in our american court of human rights -- it was born in 1979. the court and the commission has created one of the most comprehensive human rights systems in the world. it is an achievement of which we should all be proud, and which we must all strive to protect. these institutions serve the citizens who may have no other way to assert their basic rights and demand protection for themselves. we should not see them as an affront or a threat to the authority, but rather as our shared obligation to promote and protect universal human rights that we all hold dear. i was proud that my administration gave strong support to the commission, which played a central role in reducing oppression throughout the hemisphere and reinforcing the march toward democracy. but i'm concerned about ongoing problems like the violence suffered by indigenous groups in disputes over natural resources, and government actions that infringe on freedom of expression and the news media. i'm disturbed b
although the united states senate has not yet ratified the convention, 24 other countries of this hemisphere have signed it. in our american court of human rights -- it was born in 1979. the court and the commission has created one of the most comprehensive human rights systems in the world. it is an achievement of which we should all be proud, and which we must all strive to protect. these institutions serve the citizens who may have no other way to assert their basic rights and demand...
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caller: my question is how the united states senate for given egypt of the $7 billion loan -- now, today, as of today, we have a new president there in egypt. i was born there, but i was raised in this country. this gives me a more open opportunity to understand what the middle east people cannot understand. i have a question. even though my wife was a supporter of anwar sadat, i was against him for going against jerusalem, because that is an occupied country of palestine. the current situation is the arab countries have to be united as one because they are all mediterranean, mediterranean greeks and mediterranean battalions, and so forth. all of them have great food, great cultures. -- mediterranean italians. we are changing that to a group of hateful people with religious codes. i understand what that is and i do not appreciate it. host: we will stop you on that point. thank you for calling. steve cook? guest: i think what the caller is getting at is with the uprises and changes in the middle east, the government is not going to be peaceful. the government is going to create instabilit
caller: my question is how the united states senate for given egypt of the $7 billion loan -- now, today, as of today, we have a new president there in egypt. i was born there, but i was raised in this country. this gives me a more open opportunity to understand what the middle east people cannot understand. i have a question. even though my wife was a supporter of anwar sadat, i was against him for going against jerusalem, because that is an occupied country of palestine. the current situation...
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i just want to make sure how important the members of the house and senate are. just remember jamie, i recognize you man. i want to to you pretend i didn't know you. brett thank you for that introduction. it an honor to be with brett. to be with a real organized labor day on the eve of labor day. i know how to say unions. i got elected because of unions. the steel workers were the first union ever endorse me. but there's something more special about it. this guy was one of the most decorated and celebrated division in united states army. screaming eagles and 101st division. these guys are real man. brett thank you for your years of service. folks, this country is you all know. i apologize, i've been here for a half an hour i want you to know that. i don't want any record saying i was late. the good news was, there was 250 people still trying to get in. i apologize for our all standing this long. to state the obvious, this country faces the starkest choice for president in my memory. now that governor romney an congressman ryan have been nominated -- i don't need
i just want to make sure how important the members of the house and senate are. just remember jamie, i recognize you man. i want to to you pretend i didn't know you. brett thank you for that introduction. it an honor to be with brett. to be with a real organized labor day on the eve of labor day. i know how to say unions. i got elected because of unions. the steel workers were the first union ever endorse me. but there's something more special about it. this guy was one of the most decorated...
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this last -- the current state legislature, there are seven african-americans in the state senate. none of them report -- represent a majority african- american constituencies. you'll not see that strong a pattern in other southern states. that is a trend that is likely to be changed. it is likely to be changed because a party competition. we finished redistricting that was controlled by the republican party. their goal was to go back to be pew center to make the republican party a largely white party, but to make it the largest constituency among democratic voters african american. we know the differences between african-americans and whites -- if we make this a racially divided election, that always means the democrat party will lose. they managed to do it this time using the division of district lines. ironically, i will to say this, it is because according to them they think that federal law requires them to do so. you will not hear many instances where you hear the republican party talking about the importance of following a federal mandate, but this is one of them. you see th
this last -- the current state legislature, there are seven african-americans in the state senate. none of them report -- represent a majority african- american constituencies. you'll not see that strong a pattern in other southern states. that is a trend that is likely to be changed. it is likely to be changed because a party competition. we finished redistricting that was controlled by the republican party. their goal was to go back to be pew center to make the republican party a largely...
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my father was a teacher in a one-room school who worked his way to the united states senate. i was eight years old when my father's name was placed in nomination for the vice- presidency before the democratic convention in 1956. and growing up, i watched him stand courageously for civil rights, economic opportunity and a government that worked for ordinary people. i don't know what it's like to lose a father, but i know what it's like to lose a sister and almost lose a son. i wish my late sister, nancy, could be here this evening. but i am grateful beyond words for the blessings that my family has shared. three years ago, my son, albert, was struck by a car crossing the street after watching a baseball game in baltimore. tipper and i watched as he was thrown 30 feet through the air and scraped another 20 feet on the pavement after he hit the ground. i ran to his side and held him and called his name, but he was limp and still, without breath or pulse. his eyes were open with the empty stare of death. and we prayed, the two of us there in the gutter, with only my voice. his in
my father was a teacher in a one-room school who worked his way to the united states senate. i was eight years old when my father's name was placed in nomination for the vice- presidency before the democratic convention in 1956. and growing up, i watched him stand courageously for civil rights, economic opportunity and a government that worked for ordinary people. i don't know what it's like to lose a father, but i know what it's like to lose a sister and almost lose a son. i wish my late...
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foreign policy the focus of the farm debate, the 22nd. through election day, coverage of key house and senate races. follow our coverage on c-span, c-span radio, and online at c- span the work. -- c-span.org. >> the first of the presidential debates live on c-span. watch and engage. next, a discussion on teacher's issues with the president of the national education association. then a house hearing o. then a look at the remaining weeks of the 2012 presidential campaign. now, a discussion on teacher's issues with the president of the national education association. from "washington journal," host: we are going to welcome dennis van roekel, thank you so much for being with us. guest: thank you. host: we want to talk about chicago school history and other school districts facing similar problems. these problems being faced in chicago are no
foreign policy the focus of the farm debate, the 22nd. through election day, coverage of key house and senate races. follow our coverage on c-span, c-span radio, and online at c- span the work. -- c-span.org. >> the first of the presidential debates live on c-span. watch and engage. next, a discussion on teacher's issues with the president of the national education association. then a house hearing o. then a look at the remaining weeks of the 2012 presidential campaign. now, a discussion...